About Kayla

My story

For as long as I can remember I have needed to make something. It was drawing, then painting, then sewing, then rearranging every room in the house. A camera turned out to be the version of that which stuck, and I have been photographing full time for ten years now.

A nice photograph is not really the point on its own. What I am after is the ordinary texture of a day, the way your people actually move and talk to each other, because that is the part you will want back in ten or thirty years. So I stay out of the way and work candidly rather than arranging anybody into shapes. I would rather wait for the real thing than direct a copy of it.

Most of my work happens around Amarillo, out at Palo Duro Canyon and across the panhandle, and I travel for weddings whenever I am asked. Away from the camera you will find me with my kids, at the gym, or somewhere outside. Work of mine has appeared in The Knot, Modern Luxury Weddings Dallas, Rocky Mountain Bride, Rustic Wedding Chic and Brides of West Texas.